Call of Cthulhu

AL][EN

Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god Oh my god

Finally one of my Fav RPG's Finall comes to PC (about time too )

http://www.gamezone.com/gamesell/p18337.htm


and the offical website

http://www.callofcthulhu.co.uk/ie.php


Looks pretty sweet too!!

[CrimsonGhost]

I'm fairly sure there have been PC games set in Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos before.
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet iirc was the title of the game. And there may have been more.

AL][EN

Really!!??? strange they must be really old so

hmmm must go scouting for them so, were any of them perhaps MUD's ??

Naar

No, they were point-and-click adventure games. Shadow of the Comet and Prisoner of Ice are the two I know of; unfortunately Prisoner of Ice contains that stupid Cthulhu=Water, Hastur=Air, etc., thing, but it's still pretty good.

LoLth

Hound of Shadow was another good game set in London and using the Cthulhu mythos. (you even made up a cthulhu investigator using slide bars to set stats and skills etc.)

can download it HERE . it's abandonware seemingly.

ps. the download link has a ton of annoying popups. you have been warned.

AL][EN

aaahhhhaaa im using MSN Explorer it disables all popus the only REAL Decient and useful thing MS have EVER come up with in regards web browsing!!

Cool thanks Lolth i'll give it a goo

the new game looks pretty sweet tho i have to say i love the idea of the insanity meter!!

Specky

i have to say i love the idea of the insanity meter!!

I have one of those just here on my desk look....oh dear it seems to be broken....

Squall

Game called the thing has an insanity meter. If your squad went into the red they started shakign and screaming and shooting randomly. Great fun

AL][EN

Really!!! and there's me thinking the insanity meter was a cool new game concept just like bullet time!!

The Brigadier

Alone in The Dark games are set in the Cthulhu Mythos

MunkyHed

Where did the game get its name? There's a mettallica song called the call of ktulu. last track on the ride the lightning album.

LoLth

/shakes head slowly... oh dear...

The Cthulhu Mythos Cycle was invented (?) by a writer called Hp Lovecraft as the main force behind his series of horror stories (mainly short stories and a few novels). Cthulhu was the biiiiiiig baddie of them all. to see these being was to go completely insane.

Many writers have since taken up the cthulhu mythos torch and Chaosium games have had a very successful roleplaying game out for years and years called ... wait for it... Call of Cthulhu (named after one of Lovecraft's more "occult" - if any story could be described as being more occult and weird than any other - stories).

The Metallica song was most likely spelled call of ktulu because
a: they didnt want to pay royalties on using the name
or
b: a lot of people have a hard time pronouncing Cthulhu (so much so that the back of the CoC 5th edition rulebook (thats the book from chaosium games) has an in joke on the back cover asking "can you say Cthulhu (cth-oo-loo) " or something to that effect anyway.

so, stop listening to heavy metal and go read a book! (just joking, well not about the metal part )

AL][EN

here here well done lolth gah!! kids today eh!! (just joking )

Earthhorse

There's also a game called Eternal Darkness for the GameCube which is slightly Cthulhuesque.

There's a sanity meter and as you get more insane you begin to see things like enemies that aren't there and so forth. It also pops up with messages saying the joypad isn't plugged in when in fact it is and other things like that.

lordsippa

The inspector in Eternal Darkness is LeGrasse. 'Nuff said.

The end boss of Quake was Shub Niggurath (a Mythos being), and even the Dimensional Shamblers were from Lovecraft.

As for the Ktulu thing... Cthulu is often mentioned as Ktulu in various books so I'm just gonna take it that they decided to be particularly "hardcore" and use the slightly more obscure quote.

The Necronomicon is also a Mythos staple.

<has been reading Lovecraft stories for the past 3 - 4 days straight>

Earthhorse

During development of DOOM, id hired Sandy Peterson as a designer even though they had their doubts about him at first. He was with them up until Quake 2 as far as I know and I imagine it was he who played a hand in placing Mythos creatures in there.

Oh and for those who don't know Sandy Peterson was one of the main people behind the Chaosium Call of Cthulhu role playing game.

Hobbes

also available as a cuddly toy (I have one). Nyarlethotep coming soon.

I don't think it was the big baddy, just one of many. But a whole load of horror mythos has it's hand in Cthulu mythos. My favorite being "Zenith" (2000ad).

Also I preferred Bloch rather then Lovecraft.

There were numerous games out, check out underdogs. There was at least 2 text adventures for the amiga (one involved getting locked in a university afair).

As for the RPG, Normally anything weird mentioned by the GM which you might investigate means you will be dead or driven insane shortly.

AL][EN

"As for the RPG, Normally anything weird mentioned by the GM which you might investigate means you will be dead or driven insane shortly."



It will be more than likely the same way in the cuthlu PC game thats coming out shortly it does look pretty sweet i have to admit!

bloch you say hobbes never herd of that author must go looking for some of there stuff!

Hobbes

Originally posted by AL][EN
bloch you say hobbes never herd of that author must go looking for some of there stuff!

you know his work, if not the man.

http://mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com/bloch.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rbloch.htm

AL][EN

aaaaahhhh indeed i do now i know who your talking about now hobbes google is a marvelous thing

lordsippa

Just curious but has anyone tried the demo of the game yet?

AL][EN

oooo spooky my 666th post!! on the Call of cathulu thread too

if my heads starts spinning round and round and i start muttering in ancient aramaic ignore me its probably just the dodgy pizza i had last night!!

back on topic i didnt know the demo was out yet!! must check the usual PC gamer mags get me a copy of the demo i know its out pretty soon!!